=(MOD)=. have taken the initative in condemning Thursday's double attack in Soweto- the deadliest attack in S.A. in two years - and offered their support to any people being harrased by those merc's Up to 8 people were killed and more than 15 injured when one clan attacked merc's outside government offices in the Soweto capital.

=(MOD)=. officials have held the merc's in Soweto and remnants of the oppositon party responsible for the attack. One of the attackers detonated a grenade at a busy intersection near the justice and municipalities ministries, while the other set off a nade opposite the nearby Soweto provincial government offices.

The =(MOD)=. prime minister, visited the site of the attack on the provincial government office, where he spoke to officials and security officers. "These cowardly terrorist attacks must not affect the determination of the =(MOD)=. to continue their struggle against the remnants of the dismantled regime and other terrorists," he said in a statement.He also said the attacks would not affect the political process or parliamentary elections due in January, and promised to punish those behind the attacks. For his part, the =(MOD)=. president, said: "The perpetrators of these treacherous and despicable acts are no longer hiding their objective but to the contrary, they publicly declare thatthey are targeting the state ... and aiming at blocking the political process, halting it and destroying what we have achieved in the last six years."

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Thursday's explosions left streets littered with charred bodies and torn-off limbs, and buildings in ruins.The =(MOD)=. government spokesman, and Major-General, spokesman for the =(MOD)=. army's operations, both said 8 people had been killed in the attacks. A senior official in the health ministry, which bases its toll on combined figures from hospitals, confirmed the number of dead and added that more than 15 people were wounded.

=(MOD)=. said the enemy were carrying a few nades. "The blasts that took place today hold the fingerprints of 69th and others. They are similar to the ones that took place in August,". =(MOD)=. interior minister, said: "The preliminary report presented to me states that today's bombings are connected with the August blasts." Others said that security forces are now trying to hunt down fugitives who were convicted in absentia in the August terror attacks. They are believed to have a role in Thursday's blasts. On August 19, some 10 explosions rocked the Soweto capital, leaving more than 100 dead and 1,200 injured. The blasts targeted the finance and foreign ministries, the sites of which were not far from Thursday's blasts. , a Sulu MP in the parliament, told The Moderator the nading was a message to =(MOD)=. politicians and foreign investors. "This sends two messages, one of them is to the investmentconference in Joburg held just a few days ago as if to tell investors not to come to South Africa...At the same time I think it may be a message to the meeting today of the political council of national security," he said.